Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Gonin (1995)

Bandai (Koichi Sato) is a disco club owner in Tokyo whose business in not doing very well after the economic bubble collapse. He owes a lot of money to the Yakuza and has to find a way to pay. He quickly puts together an eclectic gang of losers to help him steal the money from the gangsters themselves. The other members include a disgraced cop, a young pretty-boy club goer, an unstable unemployed businessman, and a drugged out pimp. Once the gangsters get wind of who pulled the job, they send out a couple of gay assassins who are totally ruthless in their methods of revenge.

Available: Netflix, Amazon

Alternate Titles: The Five

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